There are many types of writers in the world. They always ask if you're a ‘plotter' (outlining your book before you write it,) or if you're a pantser, (coming up with the book as you go along.) Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a plotter. I used to write outlines on my bedroom mirror with dry erase markers as I tried to come up with the elements that would eventually make up my books. Now, I'm 23 and living in a small apartment that doesn't allow for large bedroom mirr

It started in the beginning months of 2015. I was living with my sister, Erika, and brother-in-law, Ben, and their two kids in a three-bedroom house that once belonged to my grandparents. I lived in the back room. It was rather small, but it fit my single bed, desk, dresser, and record player. I was nineteen at the time and it had been almost two years since I had written a book—it felt like forever ago. The last book I had written, Ghosts That Haunt My Steps, was a historica